Item Summary

Chronicle of the Albigensian crusade.

Descriptive Information

Title
Gesta nobilis viri domini Symonis Comitis de Monteforti.
Call Number
Garrett MS. 154
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc00000d34r
Publisher
[France], [between 1400 and 1425]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1400-1425
Extent
71 leaves : parchment ; 294 x 205 (208 x 147) mm bound to 305 x 220 mm.
Provenance
Unknown early provenance. By 1752 owned by the Cistercian abbey of La Trappe, Soligny-la-Trappe, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France. Offered for sale in 1842 by Jacques Joseph Techener. Later owned by Joaquim Gómez de la Cortina, marqués de Morante. His collection was sold by Librairie Bachelin-Deflorenne in the 1870s. Acquired by Ambroise Firmin-Didot. Sold in 1878 to Honoré Champion. Later sold by Maggs Bros. in 1925 to Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897. His bookplate is on upper pastedown. Garrett placed it on deposit (no. 7979) in the Princeton University Library. His gift to the Library, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 359-360.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Incipit: "Gesta nobilis viri domini Symonis Comitis de Monteforti descripta per fratrem petrum monachum vallium sarnay cisterciensis ordinis. Prologus huius operis. [S]anctissimo patri et beatissimo domino Innocentio tertio dei gratia uniuersalis ecclesie summo pontifici. Humilis licet immeritus seruus eius frater Paulus qualiscumque vallium sarnay monachus ..."
Explicit: "Explicit gesta seu hystoria de factis et triumphis memorabilibus domini Symonis nobilis viri Comitis de monteforti Cuius anima cum christo requiescat. Amen. Benedicamus domino. Deo gracias."
Ms. codex.
Title from incipit (fol. 1r).
Occasional reader's notes. Contains a letter from Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester to his seneschals of Carcassonne and Agen to protect his Dominican possessions and interests (fol. 71v).
Collation: Parchment ; fol. iii (modern paper and parchment) + 71 + ii (modern parchment and paper) ; catchwords ; some quires signed.
Layout: 41-42 lines per page in two columns ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated.
Binding Note
Later binding. France, 19th century in the Parisian bindery of René Simier. Dark brown goatskin over pasteboard with blind-tooled edging. Gold-tooled turn-ins. Marbled paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Multi-colored endbands. Gilt edges. Green silk ribbon marker.
France, 19th century. Bound in the Parisian bindery of René Simier (1772-1843).

Discovery Information

Subject
Simon de Montfort 1165-1218—Early works to 1800
Albigenses—Early works to 1800
France—History—Philip II Augustus, 1180-1223—Early works to 1800
France—Church history—987-1515—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Gold tooled bindings
Headbands
Donors' bookplates
Gilt edges
Ribbon markers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
156

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/84b36a54-8f67-4fa7-8e6f-a11a26b38c6a/manifest